On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I now have a machine that is "a brick". There is no operating system on it > as that got destroyed and any attempts to do a fresh install come back with > "No usable disks have been found" and I can't make any progress. Nothing > could be done in the troubleshoot options except get a dmesg, which I have > attached to this email. I don't believe anyone has suggested it, but are your sure your hard drive is still functioning? The file you attached doesn't detect any hard disks, just two optical drives: [ 2.245311] ata2.00: ATAPI: ATAPI DVD A DH20A4H, QP53, max UDMA/66 [ 2.245321] ata2.01: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8480B, 1.03, max MWDMA2 [ 2.245327] ata2.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable [ 2.267187] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 2.289186] ata2.01: configured for MWDMA2 [ 2.292540] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM ATAPI DVD A DH20A4H QP53 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2.295848] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 47x/125x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 2.295853] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 2.296064] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [ 2.296192] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 [ 2.297320] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8480B 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2.300388] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 2.300567] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 [ 2.300695] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 -- William Hooper -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
